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Re: [gNewSense-users] desperate for a gNewSense wifi card with WPA - if


From: andrei raevsky
Subject: Re: [gNewSense-users] desperate for a gNewSense wifi card with WPA - if you know of one, please let me know!
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:06:11 -0400

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the tip.  What is a 'mobo' and do you have any more details about this card?  I looked up "Retail Plus" on the staples website but I found nothing.  All I found is this.

Could you send me a link to Staples, Amazon or whatever pointing to this USB card?

Thanks!

Andrei

On 7/24/07, Peter Bot < address@hidden> wrote:
Hello Andrei,

I'm using feisty; the other day I had to set up a new PC for my
daughter. The mobo is an Asus a8n-sli se. In Canada at Staples store I
found a made in China usb dongle type wi-fi called Retail Plus for C$30
(compared with Linksys, Dlink etc that were in the 60-70 dollar range)
and I said to myself let me give it a try -if it doesn't work return it
for full refund. To my surprise it has a ZyDas 1211 chip set with full
support/drivers for Win 200/XP/XP64 on the CD enclosed. Under Feisty
with ndiswrapper it was up and running flawlessly in 5 minutes with full
WPA encription support. It saw the access point immediately and gave me
fully protected internet/e-mail access. I'm very satisfied how it
performs. Maybe this will help.

Regards,
peter.

andrei raevsky wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> First, let me apologize for not having followed the mailing list on
> that issue, at least for a while.  I am becoming desperate for a wifi
> card for my gNewSense computers.  Ideally, I would want one which
> works via USB, but any other solution would do provided the #^$^*!!!!
> card works.  I have tried two cards so far, the Linksys WUSB54G
> version 4 and the Linksys WUSB54C .  I tried  directly, and then I
> tried with ndiswrapper.  All I did was freeze the computer, badly.  It
> gave me 'hda1 not found' and 'segmentation fault' messages *after*
> reboot.  I had to use a live-CD to boot up with once, and then re-boot
> on the original hda1 to get the computers back up.
>
> I am willing to put some money down, but I know really need a
> gNewSense compatible wifi card.  Any suggestions?
>
> Also - my wifi is secured with WPA.  What is the utility to configure
> WPA encryption with gNewSense?  I see the WEP option, but I see no WPA
> option in the security combo box in the network config application.
>
> Any help would be very, very much appreciated!!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrei
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